Friday 1st February

Lower Key Stage 2 Newsletter

We have had another fantastic week in lower key stage two and the children have not only impressed us with their fantastic attitudes towards their learning but also their amazing manners and the kindness they are showing to one another in the playground. The children have been busy learning our ‘Sign To Sing’ song ahead of our record breaking attempt on Wednesday 6^th February.

Home Learning

For the children’s home learning we would like you to encourage your child to read at home as much as possible, and record this reading in their reading records. Please can you also encourage your child to access their Bug Club account online if they are part of the scheme and complete the quizzes to check their understanding of the text. Thank you for your continuing support with helping the children to learn their spellings every week. We are really pleased with those who practice hard to get 10/10 as this is having a big impact on their writing. As out literacy unit is story writing this half term we would like the children to show off all of their writing skills by writing us an adventure story.

Literacy

This week, as part of our narrative unit, we have been writing mystery stories, looking at how to include a balance of speech action and description to move the story on. The children have also been recognising verbs in a sentence and changing the tense of different sentences to past, present and future. Next week we are focusing on sentences structure; extending our super ideas into both compound and complex sentences using a variety of conjunctions.

Numeracy

In numeracy, the children have been choosing the correct strategy either column addition or column subtraction, to solve words problems involving weight. The children have then used both these strategies to solve two step worded problems, carefully reading the problems to determine the correct strategy to use. We have also been converting our answers into both grams and kilograms. Why don’t you ask your child to show you how to convert a weight into milligrams, grams or kilograms?

Topic

This week we have been learning all about the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb and the Valley of the kings. We have also been using hieroglyphics to solve problems and haven even created our own cartouche (name tags) using hieroglyphics. Next week we will be writing a news report about Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb, creating our own Pharaoh masks and becoming archaeologists by discovering various artefacts found in the Valley of the Kings.

Reminders

·        Please can you bring in any old newspapers for us to use during topic next week as we are using it for paper mache.

·        All year 4 boys need to ensure that their swimming shorts are above the knee and girls need to take their earrings out for swimming. If they have been recently pierced their ears must be covered up with a plaster.

·        Next week’s PE session will be outside so can all children bring a warm tracksuit and trainers for PE.

Have a lovely weekend!

Team 3/4